Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle (Volume 81) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series). This item is unavailable.Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle (Volume 81) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As “the Star of Utrecht,” she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learning and her defense of the education of women, she was the first woman to sit in on lectures at a university in the Netherlands and to advocate that women be admitted into universities. She was proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, Persian, Samaritan, and Ethiopian, as well as several vernacular European languages.

This volume presents in translation a remarkable collection of her letters and poems―many of which were previously unpublished―that span almost four decades of her life, from 1631 to 1669.

Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) was a Dutch Golden Age scholar, poet, theologian, philosopher, and artist. Anne R. Larsen is professor emerita of French and senior research professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She is the author of Anna Maria van Schurman, “The Star of Utrecht”: The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante. Steve Maiullo is associate professor of classics at Hope College and has published articles on Plato and the teaching of Latin and Greek.